User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / Joseph J. Corn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421401935 (ebook)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 303.48/30973 22
LOC classification:
  • T173.8 .C685 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Our marvelous and maddening machines -- The advent of technology consumption -- Buying an automobile -- Running a car -- Tools, tinkering, and trouble -- Reading the owner's manual -- Computers and the tyranny of technology consumption -- The technology treadmill -- Acknowledgments.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-264) and index.

Our marvelous and maddening machines -- The advent of technology consumption -- Buying an automobile -- Running a car -- Tools, tinkering, and trouble -- Reading the owner's manual -- Computers and the tyranny of technology consumption -- The technology treadmill -- Acknowledgments.

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